just a little bite please

• Lyric of the day: "I look at you, you look at me, we bite each other." --"Stuck in the Middle" by Mika
• I figured out how to make screen caps off of a DVD. On Windows XP you have to turn off the hardware overlay before you do it. No, really, it's true. You can believe me. Exhibit some trust. This leads us to the following pics of the day, each captured by me just because I could.
• Scully's blood curdling wail on her knees upon finding out Mulder was dead. From the "This Can't be Happening" episode, season 8. Another great one for my tragedy pics collection (see my old post called "It's a Tragedy").

• The following are screen caps from really old video Gramper took with one of the first camcorders on the market. They are Grander cooking, 1970; my first steps, 1971; Guy being ridiculously cute, 1973; and Grander rocking me, 1973.

Not Feeling It

So I'm pretty proud of myself for putting up this new template. I had to look up directions and manipulate code and everything. It worked as it should, but the design kind of stinks. The toolbar is nowhere to be seen, it looks a little cheap, the top border tends to disappear, and whoever designed it should have centered it. I'm actually glad though, because it's fun "shopping" for (free) blogger templates. I'll get to choose and put up another one.








*edit, later: I fixed it. Much better now.

Aubrey on a trip

When we were getting on an airplane Aubrey saw this sign and said, "Hey, that's me!" It's funny because it's true.

I see, I see!

My eyes are suddenly blue, see?

• You don't need to go out and buy Revelations, the set of X-Files episodes that are most relevant to the 25 June X-Files: I Want to Believe movie. You can just Netflix the episodes. They are as follows. I am a fan of all of them, of course. They are mini-movies.

Pilot, season 1, episode 1;
Beyond the Sea, S1 E12;
Host, S2 E2;
Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, S3 E4;
Memento Mori, S4 E15 ;
Post-Modern Prometheus, S5 E6;
Bad Blood, S5 E12;
Milagro, S6 E18

• I won two free nights at the Washington DC Madison hotel plus $50 for food, from Mix 107.3, my favorite radio station!! I was caller 30. Check out the hotel here. I will use it to stay with my friend Jennifer M. so as to better obsess on X-Files at the time of the movie opening night, and I do mean night. We will of course go see a midnight showing. As I am in the East, I will see it before you.
• Some lesser-discussed facts about gum-chewing: It makes you look and feel freeingly flippant. It helps you think better. It aggravates your temporomandibular joint disorder.
• My sister Amanda said I look like Scarlett Johansson. That's why I keep her around.
• Quotation of the day: "A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." --Charles Schwab
• Better quotation of the day: "You would look awesome with a broadsword." --Jerry H., to me

Albuquerque

• I am in Albuquerque with all the family, for Gramper's 85th birthday party. Here are sibs, spouses, and our kids. I will put up more pix when I get home.

• Here are Sierra, Lexi, and Rebekah. The gusty wind was making them maniacal.

• Shortly after the above picture was taken, Sierra, 28 months old, made the quotation of the day: "Windy me!"
• For girls' camp next week Rebekah is playing Super Goose in our Goose Creek ward skit, see?
• Father's day was good. Here we are in the grocery store, where we found the funniest cake ever. We guffawed all through the store after we found it. And the picture after that is Jerry holding the cake. We thought it looked like him a little.

two pictures

Pictures of the day. The first is the cover of Aubrey's Stone Bridge High School annual literary magazine which comes out with the yearbook at the end of the year. The cover artwork is hers. The second is a picture of the Doctor and Rose, from the Doctor Who TV soundtrack insert.

tributary

Here is a video tribute to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson that a go-jus friend of mine pointed out to me on YouTube. These two are my favorite duo ever. They have made my life sunnier with their artistic talent. They created two iconic characters that will be around forever; good stories are eternal. Separately, they have stayed as normal as anyone, and after all these years, they have managed to remain professional and respectful enough to each other, to still be able to work together. Whole>Sum of Parts, fer sher. And they both have horrible potty mouths.

• Word of the day: scoff


• Fuzzy, poor quality pics of Rebek at an awards ceremony where she got the Presidential Excellence in Education Award, I think is the name of it. And another pic at her promotion-to-high-school ceremony:

nepotism and desk-spot-ism

• Today I am wearing these super schmexy (see yesterday's quotation from David Duchovny) brown high heeled shoes that my mom sent me. Someone was holding the elevator for me as I tripped along as fast as I could this morning. The man said, "Come on, Kimberly." I answered, pointing at my shoes, "Sorry, I have an impediment." Ok so after I said it I realized how very witty I was for saying it. Here's why. The etymology of the word “impediment”: from the Latin impedimentem, which literally means “to shackle the feet”. See? "to shackle the feet"!!! I'm smrat, huh? Even though I am clever enough to make this wisecrack (emphasis on wise), I am not clever enough to wear comfortable shoes.


• Happy things happen. I was not looking forward to the fact that I was probably going to have to share an office soon. So I took my life in my hands and told the big boss that I work best in a quiet room with quiet lighting (no fluorescents). That I would of course share if I needed to, but that I would prefer my own office, even if it was teeny or full of storage items or cockroaches. (Ok, you caught me: I didn't say cockroaches. But sometimes I would rather work with cockroaches than other people.) He got back to me today and told me that he is giving me my own office--and with a window this time! Happy happy.


• Quotation of the day: "I'd kiss you if you weren't so dam* ugly." --Scully to Mulder in the Dreamland II episode


• Word of the day: nepotism

Wrapped in the Union Jack

• Check it out: here is me in my brand new Union Jack t-shirt. I have wanted one of these for a long time, anglophile that I am. I knew exactly what I wanted; I was inspired by Doctor Who's Rose. (By the way, if anyone knows the significance of the Doctor's real name and why he would ever tell it to anyone, please let me know, I 'm dying here.) I could only find it in England, so I ordered it from there, which makes it that much better. Authentic, you know? My prized possession. And dig the toilet in the background.
• Anna-Lisa and crew were here this weekend. And Travis Christensen came over for an evening too. Wowee, I really should have taken a picture of A-L, Jerry, Travis, and me. Or rather had someone else do it, which would be more effective. Good times around the board. My favorite was having Courtney and Darcy in my Sunbeam class. And Courtney reading a book for the first time. To me! Hop on Pop, don't you know. Also Ainsley cracks me up.
• Quotation of the day: "I am not like Duane Barry." --Jerry H., randomly. Any X-File reference is a turn-on for me.
• Quotation of the day number two: from David Duchovny, when asked what he discovered about wearing high heels in his roles as a transvestite. "That I was uncomfortable. I felt sorry for women after that. Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up."
• Quotation of the day number three: "...number two" --Kimberly H.
• I bought the ENTIRE X-Files box set. Not even just part of it. The whole dad-blasted thing. It is full of goodies that I have not yet even begun to explore. Hidden wonders. Let me tell you, this purchase was extremely well-rationalized. I'm on top of the world looking down on Jennifer M. and grinning at her as smugly as can be.
• *wink at Christa*

Happy Birthday Guy

Happy Birthday, "Your Brother"!!

This picture is from our combined (as always!) birthday celebration. I am guessing we are 5 and 3?

smiling

• Quotation of the day: "No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough. Tell the truth. Reach as many people as you can with it. That's your weapon."--Susanne Modeski from the X-Files. It all started with her.
• Here is the second X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer. I wish I could get a sound bite of this part: "Scully?" "Mulder." Kills me. Just in them saying each other's names, you can get their whole attitude toward each other. Mulder sounds tentative, and rightly so if he wants to ask Scully to help him drink his wine. Mulder has always been single-minded and had a death wish; he knows he's not been the most steady and dependable person to Scully. So Scully is rightly scared to do anything with him. She's probably worn and weary cuz of him I'm guessing.

• And here is the retrospective again, since the last one I posted got taken down on YouTube. *series spoilers*

• Second quotation of the day: "Why do we smile? What a random thing to do." --Aubrey H. Seriously, why do we smile? In other animals, baring the teeth is a sign of aggression. No wonder most animals either run away from us or try to eat us when we act friendly toward them (smile).

Sig Sauer

• Word of the day: overbearing
• Kimberly-only daily doubles: I watched the X-files episode "Detour" the other day, where Scully sings "Joy to the World" to Mulder. (It tickles just thinking about it.) Then I walked into a building yesterday where a jazz band was playing "Joy to the World". I read a story about someone who had a Sig Sauer, then saw a bumper sticker that said "Sig Sauer".
• Speaking of Scully singing "Joy to the World" to Mulder, I think it is especially apt that she sings "Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine." Scully never understood a single word Mulder said, but she helped him drink his wine. :)
• This dude in the elevator today was wearing Cat Pee Cologne. I wonder where he got it?